Legend of the Phoenix Part II I have nothing to say. ----------------------- Mina was waiting for Chris as he came out of school, "Hi Chris!" "Mina!" Chris hugged slightly surprised, "What are you doing here?" "I came to see you silly! I got out of class early!" "Well I would be heading over to your school to teach my class anyway?" A little drop of sweat appeared on the back of her head, "Oops." "Nah, it's okay. It's always nice to have you around." He took Mina's hand and began to leave when he heard a voice behind him, "Oh Chris...." He turned around and found Terra's nose half an inch from his face, "YAH!!!!!!! NEVER DO THAT!" "I should be the one complaining! You left me at your apartment last night!" "I thought you hadn't slept! So I told the office that you had gotten sick taking care of me!" "But you didn't tell me that! I was TWO HOURS LATE!" She pointed at his head, "If you had used this I might not have detention tomorrow!" "Listen Terra I'm really sorry, it just didn't occur to me. Can you forgive me?" She smiled, "Never." "WHAT?!?!?!?!" Terra broke out laughing, "Fooled you didn't I?" "Hey! That wasn't very nice!" "Well you deserve it!" That's when Chris heard the voice behind him, "It's so nice to see you again, it makes my day grow bright." "That's very sweet of you John but I told you I already have a boyfriend." Chris urged and spun around seeing the young silvery haired man holding Mina's hand. "Hey! It's that John guy!" Chris looked at Terra, "You know that guy?" "Yeah, he was trying to make a move on Mina yesterday." "You don't say?" Chris cracked his knuckles, "This ought to be interesting." "But your eyes see straight through me...." John continued, "You hold me spell bound." Chris tapped him on the shoulder, "Excuse me, John isn't it? I'm sorry to interrupt you but Mina and I were about to leave." John's eyes narrowed as turned around, "So... Chris, you've finally arrived." "What?" Chris was immensely startled, "How do you know my name?" "Don't say you don't remember me ninja?!" "Can't say I do." "H-how INSULTING!" John stammered, "This is the final straw, I CAN BARE IT NO LONGER!" "W-what the hell?" "Let's fight! Right here, right now. If I win you will allow me to go out with Mina, if I lose, I will leave." Chris drew himself into a fighting stance, "I don't know who you are or why you are doing this, but no one, NO ONE talks about Mina like she's some kind of piece of meat! You don't love some one just because-" Chris was forced to block John's kick in mid sentence. He was amazed at the power of the blow, any harder and it might have broken his arm. John's eyes were icy and cold, "How DARE you say that I even implicated that! You can't possibly know how I feel!" Chris punched, John blocked and returned with an elbow to his face. Chris fell back several paces avoiding it. "He's strong." Chris thought, "And fast. And his style is like nothing I've ever seen..." John's mind was equally surprised, "Chris, I can't believe how much you have improved, and you seem stronger than ever. This will be much harder than I expected..." He rushed forward one hand from underneath on hand from above in a two punch combo, Chris caught the first one by the wrist, the second he was forced to block. But the sheer momentum of John's charge sent them both through the main double doors into the building. Mina rushed after them, fallowed closely by Terra, "We have to stop them!" Terra nodded, "Even if we have to knock them out, right?" "Right. But I don't think I can do that to Chris." "Are you asking me to?" "Yes." "If you insist...." ----------------------- Serena was complaining to Lita and Ami about her test, "I don't know what happened! I studied so hard!" "A sixty-nine isn't bad for you." Ami pointed out, "Besides, Terra was at Chris' instead of helping you study right?" "Yeah...." "And it isn't like your mom is going to kill you over a grade like that." Lita added. "Well actually-" "WOULD YOU JUST GIVE UP!!!!!!!" Serena's eyes opened in surprise as the door to the stairs broke off its hinges, Chris and John crashing through still fighting. Lita looked as the rushed down the hall at incredible speed. "Would someone please explain what is happening?" Terra and Mina leaned over panting, "We have to catch them..." "Before they turn the school into a pile of rubble!" Ami put her hand to her mouth, "Is it that bad?" Terra nodded, "The downstairs is a mess! doors broken, lockers crunched, papers EVERYWHERE!" "Oh my..." Serena looked confused, "Who was that other guy? I don't think I've ever seen him before...." "That's John, and he's as good as Chris." "What are they fighting over?" "ME!" Mina blurted out exasperatedly. "You?!?!" Ami blushed, "How romantic! You should feel complemented." "YOU WOULDN'T FEEL COMPLEMENTED IF GREG HAD BEEN THE CAUSE OF THIS DESTRUCTION! CHRIS COULD GET IN BIG TROUBLE!" "I guess not..." Terra stood up straight, "Are you with us or not?" --------------------- The principal had just finished the paperwork for the day, many people thought that being a principal of a school was an easy job. About as easy as running a heard of six hundred wild stallions. The principal had to keep close track of every student, discipline, grades... Any slippage was her duty to pay attention to. But now was time to relax, school was over. She could lie back at home, maybe watch a little TV, and sleep. Her ear picked up a slight rumbling, normally she would have been on her feet, but the school was empty and this was probably her imagination. But it WASN'T her imagination when two boys came crashing through the door and onto her desk scattering all her wonderfully organized paperwork everywhere. Chris was on top of John about to give him a black eye when he heard a not-so-happy voice hovering over him. "WHAT THE HELL TO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!!!!!!!!!" Chris suddenly realized where he was, as did John who became immediately enraged, "YOU IDIOT! NOW LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE!" "What I'VE DONE?!" Chris raised his hand again, "YOU'RE THE ONE WHO STARTED THIS NOT ME!" The principal yelled them both down, "BE QUIET!" The both urged and were quiet, "Yes ma'am." She was breathing with a satanic fury, "I have never seen ANYTHING LIKE THIS!" She looked out into the hall the, a one of te rows of lockers fell over, "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH THIS IS GOING TO COST?!" "Honestly ma'am we can explain-" "I DON'T WANT EXPLANATIONS! YOU BOTH ARE SUSPENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE!" The five girls screeched to a halt in front of the door, Terra yelled, "They went in here!" Serena looked into the room and her jaw dropped, "Uh-oh...." The principal's gaze was like a bonfire, "So you are in on this to eh?" All of them shook their hands defensively, "No, no! no! There's been an awful mistake..." "I DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT! ALL OF YOU ARE SUSPENDED!" Mina raised a hand, "But I don't even go here..." "I DON'T CARE! JUST LEAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" -------------------- Chris slumped against the park bench, "That IDIOT. If he hadn't started that we all wouldn't be in this mess." Terra whispered in his ear, "I have something to tell you Chris..." He leaned closer, perking up. "It's just this... WHAT WERE YOU THINKING YOU -MORON!!!!!!-" She opened up at the top of her lungs, "DID IT OCCUR TO YOU FOR A SECOND THAT YOU COULD HAVE VERY EASILY TAKEN THAT OUTSIDE OF THE SCHOOL BUILDING?!?!?!" Chris' eyes bulged, "I'm sorry! I'M SORRY!" He made sure he still had hearing, "I needed every scrap of concentration to fight that guy." Serena whined, "My mom is going to KILL me!" Ami looked frustrated, "Your mom? What about my mom? I've never gotten a detention, let alone suspended!" Lita crossed her arms, "I still think the principal was a little harsh. Don't you?" Dan appeared in back of her, "Don't I what?" Lita jumped and turned around, "Dan!" He hugged her, "I've got a treat for you." "You do?" "Dinner for two at the Dubliner." "The four star Irish restaurant?" "The same." he winked, "The make a KILLER meatloaf I hear." "You think of everything!" He looked startled, "I do?" "You knew I was feeling down because I got suspended and you did this to cheer me up! That's what I love about you!" He chuckled, "I guess I do..." That was before a piece of parchment smacked against his forehead, knocking him back. "What the!" "Containment wards?!" Terra opened her eyes wide, "EVERYONE GET DOW-" She yelled in pain as another piece of parchment hit her, this one different looking. It felt like it was on fire, she could barely move. Mina screamed, "TERRA!" Terra, again, yelled in pain as the ward flared, "D-don't let a-any touch you!" Chris dove knocking Mina out of the way as another parchment flew past slamming into a tree and exploding. He looked into the woods where they were coming from, "COME OUT!" A sickening laugh emitted from the trees, "If you insist..." The dark figure seemed to appear as he walked out from under the cover. "Greetings, you may call me Necromancer, though I doubt you will live long enough to use it." Dan got up, ward still attached to his forehead, "Damn you! DRAGON ARMOR ACTIVATION!!!!!!!!!" Nothing happened. "What the-" "Your powers are contained inside the containment ward. As are hers." he pointed to Terra, "But I like diversity so I made it so if she moves more than an millimeter she receives a pain so intense it is as if her soul were being ripped straight from her body." He held a another such ward between his fingers, "Now do you understand my power." Chris took evasive action, "EVERYONE! Split up and transform!" Necromancer looked as they disappeared, "Damn, they are to fast for one such as I." Terra screamed again as she tried to get up. He smiled, "But they wont leave their friend here. What a lovely occasion." ---------------------- Having transformed Lita tried to pull off the ward from Dan's forehead, she quickly pulled her hand away, "It burns!" Dan grabbed at it but came up with a similar result, "Forget me and aid the others. I'm going for help." He got up and began running towards the exit of the park. Lita dashed off in the other direction back to where the Necromancer stood over Terra's body like a buzzard waiting for dead flesh. ----------------------- "MERCURY ICE STORM BLAST!" Necromancer placed out another ward, countering Ami's attack. "Pathetic, don't you ever come up with anything new?" "VENUS LOVE ME CHAIN ENCIRCLE!" He jumped as Mina's chain grabbed Terra from underneath him. She screamed as Mina caught her in her arms. "Terra! TERRA!" Tears were coming form Terra's eyes which seemed screwed shut with the pain. Necromancer jumped into the air, "MY TURN!" He threw three wards out at Serena who managed to trip past two of them, the third one however was a different story. "HEELLLPPPP!!!!!" In a flash of black and red she moved. Tuxedo Mask held her in his arms twenty feet from where he had picked her up. "TUXEDO MASK!" "You should be more careful Sailor Moon. Now is not the time to be day dreaming." A set of four roses appeared in his hand. "You, Necromancer! Go pick on someone your own size!" He laughed "You?" "YES!" The roses flew through the air at high speed. Out of nowhere the necromancer pulled a GIANT ward, as big as him, he swiped it at the roses, deflecting them. "Can't you do any better than that?" --------------------- From his viewing point Nacrite grinned evilly, "Hurry up my friend, hurry to save your precious friends. FOR YOU ONLY BRING THEIR DESTRUCTION! BwahahAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" --------------------- Chris lashed out with the Moon Sabre, cutting through the ward half an inch in front of Mina's face. The Necromancer held up a hand full more of the parchments, "AHAHAHAHA!!! See! Plenty more where that came from!" "DAMN YOU!!!!!!!!!" "Now observe!" He pulled one out of his bundle, "I've been saving this!" To Chris' immense surprise Necromancer slapped the ward on himself. And promptly vanished. "WHAT?!" "You can't his what you can't see!" His voice echoes around, "You can't even find me by listening to my voice!" "Oh YEAH? Lunar Flame VISION!" The grand circle of fire formed, but showed only nothing. "I took into account your abilities, they are all known to me!" Chris felt the cold paper on his head after it was too late, "NOOOOO!!!!" He couldn't move, it felt like he was encased in stone. Mina ran toward him, "CHRIS!" "Mina! Get away quickly!" "TO LATE!" The voice came as a ward coalesced on her forehead. "Only four left now!" "I won't let you! Mercury Bubbles BL-AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!" "Oh I'm sorry did you mean to say 'Blast'?" Laughter filled the air as Ami fell to the ground, stunned. Darien and Serena began to fan out, "Sailor Jupiter! Move as Sailor Moon and I do! If we cover more ground we stand more of a chance of finding him!" As Lita fallowed his command Necromancer appeared in their midst, "Think you are fast enough?" Darien yelled, "NOW!" They charged, Chris saw it from his paralyzed vantage point, "WAIT! IT MIGHT BE A TRAP!!!!" To his worst fear the image exploded into thousands of wards, binding themselves to Darien, Serena and Lita." The Necromancer finally appeared, staring at the fallen he had vanquished, "You were barely a challenge." He pulled out another ward. "Now to gift wrap you for my master." "NOT SO FAST!" The Necromancer looked around madly, "Who goes there?" "I do!" And with that a great winged shape landed from the sky. The wings like some great cloud, armor glistening like a sun, and a face hidden behind a helmet of silver. In the hands the winged warrior was a great broadsword of a metal that seemed to glow with some strange energy. "And who pray tell are you?" "From the blanket of the sky I come...." "What?" "The lives of hundreds of centuries...." "Oh please not one of these speeches..." "Dark fiend, I BRING YOU THE WRATH OF HEAVEN!!!!" "Just who are you already?" "I AM THE PHOENIX KNIGHT! LAST MEMBER OF THE PHOENIX CLAN! NOW I WILL EXTINGUISH THE LIGHT OF YOUR EXISTENCE FOREVER!" "Please..." The Necromancer held up a wad of wards, "NOW GO QUIETLY!" He sent the parchments fluttering through the air like rain, but the Phoenix Knight stood stalk still. "At least try to dodge!" "No." In a grand enveloping the great wings began to beat, and beat. Faster and faster, not taking him off the ground but creating a great wind current. The Necromancer tried to run as his wards came back into his face, surrounding him inside his own trap. "Why does it have to end like this?" The beating of his wings slowed, and finally came to a stop. "See yourself in the punishment you inflict on your victims and repent before I send you to your final judgement." The great sword began to glow lifting it from it's resting position he pointed it at the Necromancer. "Now..." He inhaled as the sword began to reach its peak intensity, "Phoenix Blaze ENCLOSURE!" A great wash of flame erupted over the Necromancer in the shape of a dome, instantly obliterating him. After the dome dissipated a small black rod fell to the ground and shattered. Then simply vanished. After their master was gone the wards vanished as well, freeing their captives. Chris got up, "Who are you Phoenix Knight?" "You mean you still don't recognize me?" The winged figure removed the helmet revealing an all to familiar face. "J-john?!" "The same. I am both John and the Phoenix Knight. And I have come to reclaim what is my destiny." Terra was just recovering, "What are you talking about?" "I have come for Mina." His eyes turned skyward, "Let us go home." Mina shot back, "Now hold on just a darn minute! I've known you for three days maximum! How can you expect me to leave the person I love and go with you to some unknown place?! It doesn't make any sense!" John's eyes fell, "Why? Why does it have to be this way? Why must I wear this curse which banes my existence day in and day out?" He breathed heavily, "Fine, I will tell you my story, and then maybe you will see....." ----------------------- "It all started long ago, in the time known as the Silver Millennium. I was a prince of the Phoenix tribe and we had just entered into the league of the Moon Kingdom. In order to seal our pact, I was to be married to one of its leader's daughters. The lot fell upon the planet Venus, who shared the kingdom between King Trent of Earth and Queen Gaia of Venus. They had two daughters twins, and I was told to chose between them." "Though they were twins, I could easily see a difference. One was named Terra whom I could see possessed great gifts for it seemed powers had penetrated her very soul, turning her eyes purple, and hair green, the daughter of the Earth very different from her sister. But I also notice her eyes were sad, and didn't seem to be on what was at hand. When I looked at her my entire soul seem down cast, as if depression had seized my heart to twist it so." "The other, Mina, with blond hair and blue eyes was the was quite different. The golden locks of her hair and brilliant blue eyes marked her as the daughter of Venus. I now knew why Venus and Earth were called twin planets, yet were so different. But when I looked at Mina, my entire body was seized with joy, and when I looked into those eyes I felt as if lost in them. My mind swooned with the intensity of it, little did I know I had already made my choice." "I returned with them to the Moon, to see the Kingdom in which I would be living. I saw the wonder and the spectacle, but to me it was empty. For I saw something else, I saw that my angel was in love with someone else. A young man from the planet Neptune, with golden hair and blue eyes like the girl that I loved. But when I saw the kind way he treated me, despite the love for her I saw in his eyes I knew then that I could not get between them. I wanted my angel to be happy, so I would leave her and marry her sister." "So I left the Moon for home, to tell my parents of my decision, but to my horror I found my tribe had been destroyed by dark forces. For black magic had been used, and they were all dyeing as I arrived, their blood boiling in their veins. I ran to find my parents, only to find my mother dead, and my father barely alive. In his dying words he told me to go quickly and find Princess Mina, save her from the coming destruction and marry her, so that the Phoenix bloodline would not die." "The decision had been made, I knew what I had to do. But I found the Moon Kingdom already destroyed, crumbling as if it had seen a hundred battles. I was struck with doom, but vowed never to give up. I would search for my angel, and to fulfill the last wishes of my parents." ------------------------ John sighed, "Since then I have search far and wide. Through galaxies and to planets uncharted. I encountered many foes, defeating them all, even under the curse that one of them gave me, that all those that mattered would forget me. And all those who despised me would remember me like the day I first met them. But one day in a final act of desperation I returned to Earth, my starting place, in hopes that I had somehow passed over her. And that is when I saw her, as if the heavens had sent me a message that everything was all right." Mina exhaled, "And that must have been when I met." Terra rubbed her chin thoughtfully, "Let me get this straight. Your clan was the clan destroyed by PIR weapons during the war, and you are the only survivor. Being a Phoenix you posses immortality by consuming yourself in fire and rising from the ashes." "That is correct." "And you had a choice between Mina and I to continue your blood line and you chose Mina. But when you saw her with Chris you decided that taking her would only bring her unhappiness, so you decided to marry me instead. But on finding your tribe destroy, your father told you to marry Mina and carry on the bloodline." "Correct again." "Then I just have one question." "Ask and it shall be answered." Terra inhaled deeply, "If I asked you right now, in order to stop this madness, would you marry me?" John looked shocked, "W-w-ha..." She gripped the cloth of her shirt, "I-I-I could never give you my heart, but to give Mina and Chris and everyone happiness from a feud that could so easily be avoided, I would give my life to the void of nothingness." She ripped the cloth bringing a crystal pendant out to glisten in the light. "HERE!" He held the pendant out to him, "I have been told that this pendant holds my very soul. I don't care what you do with it, but please! These are all my friends! That depressed lonely person you saw was before I met them! I can't, no, WON'T allow it to be shattered this way!" John quickly regained his composure, "So noble...." "You'll do it?" "No." His eyes were stern, "I cannot allow anything to stand in the way of my father's dying wish! I am sorry, for what you have just done has touched me deeply. But without Mina my life has no meaning. You see, normally after a thousand lifetimes a phoenix will give himself up to death. But I have remained alive throughout the centuries, through hundreds of thousands of lifetimes! All to make this come true! And when I see a child is born, a child that can make my father's dying wish come true, then I can finally die in peace." Terra sunk to her knees, "Y-you can't do that...." He looked at Mina, "Now will you come with me? Now do you see why?" Mina shook her head, "I-I'm sorry, but I can't. I can't leave the person I love and the friends I have to go off with someone else out of pity! John lowered his eyes, a small tear rolling down them, "I'm sorry you see it that way." He stretched his wings, and with one great beat he was airborne and out of sight. Terra raised her hand that held her pendant to the sky, "COME BACK HERE YOU COWARD!!!!!!!!!!!" --------------------------------- Did I go overboard on the dramatics? I had to rewrite this twice to get it just right, one because there wasn't enough dramatics and the other because there was too much. Well, maybe I should have let it be and then I could have been told which version was better. End Part II